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Home to the impressive Victorian Queen Anne Bembridge House and numerous smaller examples of this style, Willmore City was the first residential development in Long Beach. Started in 1881 from a subdivision of the Rancho Los Cerritos, Willmore City contains Drake Park named for Colonel Charles Rivers Drake developer of the Pike amusement complex and the Knoll Park housing development.

Saturday’s tour will include the Broadlind hotel among other historic East Village locations. Photo from wikimedia.
Join Long Beach Heritage Saturday, September 10, 2016 for the East Village Walking tour. Future tours of the historic district will be given the second Saturday of each month.

Join Long Beach Heritage, Saturday, Saturday, July 16, 2016, for a Walking Tour of Downtown Long Beach. Long Beach was recently voted the best walkable, large city in Southern California by Walk Score, a company that rates neighbourhood throughout the United States.

Once a year, Long Beach Heritage invites the public to view some of the unique homes that make up the city’s rich architectural history. The 2016 Great Homes Tour, on Sunday, June 5 from 12-5 pm, will showcase five architecturally distinguished homes in the Bluff Park, Naples, Virginia Country Club and Bixby Knolls areas of Long Beach, two of which, were designed by noted architect Edward Killingsworth.

Join Long Beach Heritage Saturday, May 7, 2016 for their new North Pine Walking tour.
As well as celebrating successful re-activation projects such as the Kress Lofts, Walker Lofts (the Famous Department Store buildings), York Temple Lofts, and Molina’s Press-Telegram and Meeker- Baker buildings, this tour will highlight the charm of some of our earliest extant commercial structures along the Pine Avenue corridor between 4th and 8th Streets.

Photo courtesy of Long Beach Heritage
Long Beach Heritage offers a unique opportunity to learn about the history and restoration/preservation of one of Long Beach’s greatest historic homes and gardens on Sunday April 10th, 2016 from 1-4pm.

Downtown Long Beach is rich with many buildings of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne style built in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Join Long Beach Heritage, Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., for a tour showcasing these treasures.

Home to the impressive Victorian Queen Anne Bembridge House and numerous smaller examples of this style, Willmore City was the first residential development in Long Beach. Started in 1881 from a subdivision of the Rancho Los Cerritos, Willmore City contains Drake Park named for Colonel Charles Rivers Drake developer of the Pike amusement complex and the Knoll Park housing development.

Join Long Beach Heritage, Saturday, March 21, 2015 for a Walking Tour of Downtown Long Beach. Long Beach was recently voted the best walkable, large city in Southern California by Walk Score, a company that rates neighborhoods throughout the United States.

Jenny Reeve-Townsend home
Please join Long Beach Heritage as it celebrates the 2015 Award winners for excellence in the Preservation and Restoration of several of the city’s most notable buildings, as well as the friends of preservation whose efforts are instrumental in maintaining the city’s heritage.